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DCP backs faster review proposals while council warns of environmental justice trade-offs
Summary
DCP told council it supports state and local reforms to shorten environmental review timelines (including proposals to exempt many residential projects), citing an analysis that most qualifying projects had shown no impacts; council members warned that exemptions could reduce investments in schools, parks and other neighborhood infrastructure.
Council members questioned Department of City Planning officials about proposals to shorten or exempt certain housing projects from local environmental review. The discussion covered DCP's own green fast-track proposal (which the department limited to smaller projects in its analysis) and state-level proposals that would exempt larger projects in some areas.
DCP officials said their analysis of recent projects found that 99.6% of developments that would qualify under the state proposal had no…
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